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Saturday, 10 August 2013

in the year 1638. for one Peake a Stationer

To put this out of question, we shall only
adde
one irrefragable evidence more con|cerning
Images
and Pictures.
We have proved
formerly
that the Archbishop had
in his own private Study a Book of Popish
pictures
of the Life, Passion, and Death of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and of the Virgin Mary,
printed
by Boetius à Bolswert in
forein
parts,
Anno 1623. These very Pictures
were
all licensed
by the Archbishops
own Chaplain Doctor Bray;
printed
by his own printer and Kinsman Badger, in the
year 1638. for one Peake
a Stationer (now in armes
against the Parliament) and publickly
sold
and bound
up in Bibles;
as was
testified
by Mr. Walley Clerk of
Sta|tioners
Hall, and Michael Sparke
Senior. Master Willingham likewise
attested
upon oath concerning
these Pictures
and Crucifixes
put into the Bibles:
that Captain Peak at Holborne
Cundit, Bookseller, who printed
these pictures
for Bibles,
did
affirme,
that he printed
them
with the good liking,
and by the speciall
direction of the Arch|bishop,
and his Chaplaine
Dr. Bray: which Dr. Bray, as he
said,
carried
him
divers
times
to the Archbishop, to shew
him
the prints
thereof, as they were
cut and finished,
who liked
them
all well, and gave
his consent for the binding
them
up in Bibles;
say|ing,
That the Bibles
wherein these pictures
were
bound
up, they should be called
THE BISHOP OF CANTERBURIES
BIBLES;
(stiling
them
after his own name, so much did
he owne
this fact, not the Bibles
and Book of God, who abhorres
such Images:)
and further deposed,
That he found two Bibles
bound
up with these Pictures
in them,
the one among Secretary Windebanks, the other
among Sir John Lambes
and Dr. Ducks
chiefe
papers
and treasure (two of the Archbishops
bosome
friends
and favourites)
who highly
esteemed
them:
both of which Bibles
seized
by Mr. Willingham, and
richly
bound
up with these pictures
in them,
were
then
produced
and shewed
to the Lords.
Master Walley further deposed,
that these pictures
bound
up in Bibles
giving
great offence and scandall
to many well affected
people, himselfe
with some other Stationers
repaired
to Lambeth
to the Arch|bishop
and complained
against these pictures,
and the binding
of them
up in Bibles,
demanding
his Graces
direction therein; whether they should seize such
Bibles
with pictures
which gave
offence, or suffer them
to be sold?
To which the Arch|bishop
answered,
That they might doe well not to lay
them
out publickly
upon their stals to be sold
as yet, lest they should give offence; but if any come
to ask for them
or to buy them
in your shops,
in Gods
name sell them
freely
to them,
without

any scrupple; adding
the second time, sell them
to such in Gods
name, but lay them
not upon your stals in publick
view. Upon which testimony the Archbishop
deman|ded
of Mr. Walley, who it was
that gave
him
this direction concerning
the sale of those Bibles
with pictures?
To which he readily
replyed;
Your Grace with your own mouth, as you may well
remember. Whereunto the Archbishop
answered,
it was
true, he did
so; but the pictures
were
printed
& bound
up with Bibles
before he knew
of it; and that the first time he
saw
one of these Bibles,
was
in a Ladies
hand in the Chappell
at Whitehall; which he
looking
upon, when he came
to Lambeth,
sent
for one of those Bibles
himself; after which, the Stationers
comming
unto him
about the sale of them,
he gave
them
such directions
as aforesaid, not to sell them
openly
for fear of giving
offence, but only privately
in their shops
to such as asked
for them:
As most evident confession of guiltinesse.
For if such pictures
in Bibles
were
good & usefull,
why should they not be exposed
to open sale, & the view of all
men?
if ill and unlawfull,
why should any of them
be printed,
or sold
to any in private, and not totally
suppressed,
demolished,
burnt? being
contrary to our Statutes,
Ho|milies,
Writers,
and the received
Doctrine of our Church? These directions
then of his, shewes
his good affection to popish and idolatrous
pictures:
he had
polluted
his own English Bible with an
embroydred
Crucifix on its
cover, before these Pictures
printed;
and now he would corrupt, pollute all our
Bibles
and New Te|staments
with these Romish Images
bound
up in them,
to which they are most re|pugnant.
He would suffer no English Bibles
to be printed
or sold
with marginall
Notes
to instruct the people, all such must be
seized
and burnt, as we shall prove a|none:
but himself gives
speciall
approbation for the venting
of Bibles
with Popish pictures
taken
out of the very Masse
book, to seduce the people to popery and idolatry.